[Every news report about this Saudi request for immunity begins with the same disclaimer.]

“Saudi Arabia had nothing to do with the 11 September, 2001, attacks and should be dismissed from lawsuits.”

Saudi Arabia had nothing to do with the 11 September, 2001, attacks and should be dismissed from lawsuits brought by victims’ families, a lawyer for the kingdom has told a judge.

The country was dropped as a defendant nine years ago by a judge, who argued it was protected by sovereign immunity.

But in December 2013 a federal appeals court reinstated it, saying there was a legal exception because of the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the terror attack.

Lawyer Michael Kellogg made the argument before a Manhattan federal judge. He said there were no facts showing Saudi Arabia knew of the attacks in advance, or knowingly aided terrorists.

Mr Kellogg said the plaintiffs had failed to allege “admissible, concrete, competent evidence” of Saudi Arabia’s involvement, but had instead relied on innuendo and rumour to support their claims.

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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is pictured with senior staff in the President’s Emergency Operations Center in Washington in the hours following the September 11, 2001 attacks in this U.S National Archives handout photo

He argued that foreign nations are immune to such lawsuits.

Speaking for the 11 September families, lawyer Sean Carter said the judge must decide whether there is sufficient evidence to find that Saudi Arabia agents provided terrorists with “operational assistance”.

He said that two Saudi government employees held two of the hijackers who could not speak English to find an apartment when they arrived in San Diego.

Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi Arabian citizens.

One of the government employees put the hijackers up at his apartment, co-signed and guaranteed their lease and helped them to open a bank account with $9,000 of his own money.

Lawyers have said they have developed new evidence against Saudi Arabia since a 11 September Commission report found no evidence the Saudi government or senior Saudi officials had individually funded al Qaeda.

The lawsuits were brought from 2002 against countries, companies and organisations accused of aiding the terror group and others. They are seeking billions of dollars in damages.

EXCLUSIVE: Bin Laden’s ‘stepmother and sister among four killed’ after their private jet crashes into a UK car auction when it tried to land near London

Plane overshot the runway at Blackbushe Airport on Hampshire border The £7m jet crashed into a carpark and exploded after hitting the ground The aircraft, a £7m Brazilian-built Embraer Phenom 300, was destroyed Police are investigating whether three members of family were on board

By Darren Boyle

31 July 2015 | Updated: 05:31 GMT, 1 August 2015

Osama Bin Laden’s stepmother and sister are thought to be among four people killed after a private jet owned by the family crashed into a fireball after overshooting a runway while trying to land outside London.

The £7million Embraer Phenom 300 was owned by Salem Aviation in Jeddah, which is controlled by the dead terrorist’s family.

The Brazilian-built aircraft exploded after ploughing into a carpark killing the pilot and three passengers. Saudi Arabian media reported that Bin Laden’s stepmother and sister were among the four people killed, as well as their Jordanian pilot.

The jet was completely destroyed after it overshot the runway while trying to land at the Blackbushe Airport on the Hampshire-Surrey border.

Emergency services raced to the scene shortly after 3pm when the aircraft crashed into an overflow car park attached to the British Car Auction.

The Saudi Arabian embassy in London expressed their condolences to the Bin Laden family for their loss following yesterday’s accident.

Although based in Saudi Arabia, the plane was flying into Hampshire from Milan. The Bin Ladens have interests in northern Italy.

The crash is not being treated as terrorism-related.

According to AvGen Limited, who monitor flights arriving and departing Heathrow Airport, their equipment picked up the doomed jet as it approached Blackbushe Airport.

Their data suggests that the aircraft was flying at 1,250 feet when it approached the airfield. It then climbed rapidly 500 feet. When the pilot steered the jet to the runway, he started losing height at a rate of 3,000 feet per minute in the moments before the crash.

Bin Laden’s father Mohammed originally registered the tail number of the aircraft involved in today’s crash in the 1960s.

BIN LADEN FAMILY STILL BIG BUSINESS IN SAUDI ARABIA

The Saudi Red Sea trading port of Jeddah is the business HQ for the construction family’s fabulously successful Saudi BinLadin Group (SBG).

The Bin Ladens made their money by gaining exclusive rights to all religious building projects under Saudi control in Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem, Mohammed Bin Laden then branched out into lucrative civil projects.

More than a dozen Bin Laden brothers and half-brothers sit on the SBG board and help to run its operations from regional HQs across the Middle East.

SBG is estimated to be worth many billions of pounds.

He was flying the aircraft with the number HZ-IBN, when he crashed in 1967, however his family retained the registration.

The aircraft was registered to Salem Aviation – which was named after the dead terrorist’s eldest brother, who himself died in a crash in 1988 when he ploughed into power lines in San Antonio, Texas.

A source close to Saudi Arabian authorities said: ‘Saudi officials in contact with members of the (bin Laden) family.

They are aware of the reports and are carrying out checks with members of the family for further information.’

A spokesman for Blackbushe Airport said: ‘A Phenom 300 Jet with four persons on board crashed near the end of the runway around 3.09 PM while attempting to make a landing.

‘The scene was attended by Blackbushe Fire & Rescue within minutes, followed by Hampshire Fire, Police and Ambulance units.

‘Emergency services are currently controlling the scene.’

The South East Coast Ambulance Service sent out a tweet saying they have had reports of four casualties after the incident near Farnborough.

The aircraft is understood to have been owned by a Saudi Arabian national.

All staff and customers at the British Car Auction site escaped unharmed.

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Lorwy is no 1 suspect , HE HAS MADE A LOT OF CLAIMS ON TERROR ATTACKS WITH HIS SHOPPING CENTRES AROUND 17 , MOST TRIGGERED BY A FAKE PHONE CALL . He has hstory too. Lowy was appointed a Director of the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1995, and was reappointed in 2000 and 2003, concluding his term in 2005.[7] In 2008 Lowy and related interests were mentioned in documents stolen from the LGT Bank of Liechtenstein by a former employee. A subsequent US Senate probe and an Australian Taxation Office audit in which Lowy and his sons, David and Steven, were investigated on their involvement with financial institutions in tax havens located in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Lowy maintained he had not done anything ,Fof the International Advisory Council of the pro-Israel Brookings Institution in Washington. According to Wikipedia, "Brookings is generally considered one of the three most influential policy institutes in the U.S." The aforementioned Martin Indyk, former vice chairman of Lowy's Institute for National Strategy and Policy and former U.S. ambassador to Israel, is also a Director at Brookings. You can read about Indyk here. Some consider Indyk to be the prime suspect in the FBI's hunt for the Israeli spy known as "Mega".So, like Silverstein, Lowy is without question a filthy rich corporate Israel cheerleader. But there's also plentiful evidence that he's an outright crook, too. For instance, it appears that Lowy got involved in the British government's Cash for Peerages scandal with Lord Levy, one of Tony Blair's closest aides, back in 2002. From a 2002 Sunday Times. So at the very least, Lowy is heavily involved in Jewish affairs and Zionist lobby groups, he's extremely cozy with criminal Zionist elites, and he's a fanatical Zionist himself. So are his three sons: Peter Lowy, co-CEO of Westfield Corp with his brother Stephen, sits on the board of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and is chairman of the board of the University of Judaism, which has been renamed the American Jewish University after its merger with the Brandeis-Bardin Institute. Peter publishes the Jewish Journal which glorifies him in return:. Peter is an important man in the U.S.: he chairs the Homeland Security Advisory Council, serves on the RAND Corporation Executive Committee and Board of Trustees and still finds time to serve Israel through the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) as a member of the Executive Committee. He's described as a "deep-pocket contributor" to both the Democrat and Republican parties. Peter Lowy, when called on by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for testimony, refused to talk:

But senators tried to make up for his silence, offering accounts of shadowy shell corporations, secret transactions, mysterious acquisitions, exotic locations, all topped off by allegations of a late-night flight by Lowy this month to avoid a government subpoena. We know the attacks of September 11 were carried out to further the political agenda of the Zionists, so it was by no coincidence that two of them – Frank Lowy and his pal Larry Silverstein, who both have intimate friendships with Israel's political elite – purchased the lease of the World Trade Center complex just weeks before it was destroyed. And it certainly wasn't Muslims who benefited from this murderous PSYOP; it was Israel. Lowy, a dual Australian and Israeli citizen, is co-founder of the Westfield Group, operator of over 100 shopping centers in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and UK. They also own Marriott Hotels.

Both these companies have suffered a long list of "terrorist attacks" for which large insurance claims were made.

I think you might like this Field , i dare say you will understand the plane talk at the end beter than most , exremely well detailed and written , withh details that were written way before the Russian exposure on this subject , perhaps he was telling the truth after all . http://loveforlife.com.au/content/08/01/31/bali-micro-nuke-lack-radiation-confuses-experts-bomb-flashed-exploded-micro-nuke-ge Of paricular interest is Most interesting is a Canadian De Havilland Dash 7 carrying the registration C-FWYU, which landed in Denpasar four hours before the explosion at the Sari Club, and took off again for an unknown destination one hour after the weapon exploded. This flight was “whited out” of the control tower logs, but can still be identified by shining a bright light on the back of the log page in question. Full details of the flight are shown in the aircraft handling logs, which someone presumably forgot to delete, and which have now been photographed for future legal use if required. Denpasar ground crew members remembered this particular aircraft well, because it was in their words “very distinctive”, an observation that deserves explanation.Only about 100 Dash 7 aircraft were ever made, which ensures that any one of them is a curiosity at any airfield in the world. . Could be a good clue ..